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General managing 101

May 28, 2003|By Donnie Krug.

ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Stephen Nidetz is a genius. Obviously he knows that it's pitching that wins baseball games. Which is why he would be smart to trade Kerry Wood and his 2.78 ERA and major-league-leading 89 strikeouts for an unproven third baseman.

There is not one general manager in baseball who would be dumb enough to trade a pitcher that at his age (25) is one of the top 10 pitchers in the game with the potential to be another Curt Schilling or Randy Johnson (if not better) for an unproven offensive player. If they were that dumb, they would be the GM of a Little League team at best.

So Nidetz needs to take his unbelievable intelligence and write articles about other sports, because he has no clue about baseball. Watch Wood and Mark Prior become the best 1-2 combo in the National League for the next 10 years.